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Partners with Canonical to provide certified and supported Ubuntu images, optimized to run natively on bare metal on Triton Infrastructure Containers SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 18, 2015) - Joyent Inc., the container-native infrastructure company, today announced the ability to run container-native Linux images directly on bare metal with Joyent Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure, released into general availability earlier this week. Joyent also announced a partnership with… Read More ›

Introduces Certified Docker Images for Node.js, Enterprise-Grade Support, and Launches Node.js Incubator Program, Reinforcing Backing for Fast-Growing Open Source Project SAN FRANCISCO, CA—(Marketwired - Feb 10, 2015)—Joyent, Inc., the container infrastructure company and corporate steward for the Node.js open source project, today announced the launch of certified Docker container images for Node.js, increased Node.js support for the enterprise and the creation of the Node.js Incubator Pro… Read More ›

Joyent, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal, Fidelity, SAP and The Linux Foundation Join Forces to Support Node.js Community With Neutral and Open Governance, Resources for Developers SAN FRANCISCO, CA—(Marketwired - Feb 10, 2015)—Joyent, Inc., the container infrastructure software company and corporate steward of the Node.js open source project, today announced that it will move to establish a formal open governance model for Node.js with the creation of an independent foundation. Joyent will join forces wit… Read More ›

Concurrently Launches First Class Container Service for Joyent Public Cloud SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- (December 3, 2014) -- Joyent, Inc., the container infrastructure company, today announced two open source initiatives and the general availability of a first-class container service in the Joyent Public Cloud to accelerate the adoption of application containers in the enterprise. Docker application containers are perhaps the most transformative data center innovation of the decade. However,… Read More ›

As Node.js continues to experience phenomenal growth, board will provide community­ driven guidance to Node.js and Joyent leadership on governance, structure, and roadmap. SAN FRANCISCO — (October 23, 2014) — Joyent, Inc., the corporate steward of the Node.js open source project, today announced a proposal for the creation of a Node.js Advisory Board, which serves as a significant first step toward a fully open governance model. Initial advisory board members represent a wide swath of the Node… Read More ›

Scott Hammond Joins Joyent Executive Leadership Team from Cisco Systems SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 26, 2014 - Joyent, the high-performance cloud infrastructure and data services company, today announced the appointment of Scott Hammond as Chief Executive Officer. Under Scott’s leadership, Joyent seeks to accelerate growth with a focus on hybrid cloud infrastructure, which is expected to become the largest segment of cloud computing in coming years. Gartner predicts 50% of all enterprises will h… Read More ›

SmartDataCenter 7 Gives Enterprises an Alternative to Fragmented Do-it-yourself Offerings and Costly Incumbent On-Premise Infrastructure San Francisco, Calif. -- Joyent, the high-performance cloud infrastructure and data services company, today released SmartDataCenter 7, a complete cloud management platform for private and hybrid cloud deployments. SmartDataCenter is designed around lightweight, container-based virtualization, and is time-tested, having run at scale for years as the backbone… Read More ›

With New Service, Joyent Offers Access to Enterprise-Grade Node.js Expertise San Francisco, CA, December 03, 2013 – Joyent, Inc., the high-performance cloud infrastructure and big data analytics company, and the corporate steward of Node.js, today announced at Node Summit 2013 the offering of Node.js® Core Support that provides direct availability to severity one support for enterprise-grade Node.js applications. The new offering marks the expansion of Joyent’s customer support tiers to give any … Read More ›

New High-Performance Joyent Manta Storage Service Establishes a New Standard for Data Analysis, Speeding Time to Insight and Decreasing Cost San Francisco, CA, June 25, 2013 – Joyent, the high-performance cloud infrastructure and big data analytics company, today announced the availability of Joyent Manta Storage Service, a next-generation cloud object store and data services platform that brings compute and analysis capabilities directly to customers’ data in the cloud. As the first true con… Read More ›

New Instance Types and Flexible Pricing Options Drive Cloud Costs Down San Francisco - (May 23, 2013) - Joyent, Inc., the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, today announced the immediate availability of a broad expansion of its elastic compute service product line as well as reserved pricing plans and globally consistent pricing, allowing customers more flexibility and control to optimize on their price to performance value. With its new end-to-end elastic compute service, Joyent… Read More ›

New Offering Makes It Easy to Automate Deployment and Provisioning of Scale-Out Cloud Projects SAN FRANCISCO, CA - (April 24, 2013) - Joyent, the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, and Opscode today announced that Opscode Chef™ infrastructure automation software is now fully supported and available on the Joyent® Cloud. Joyent customers can now easily implement Hadoop and other large deployments using re-usable configuration templates -- known as cookbooks and recipes -- for au… Read More ›

Cloud-Native Architecture Helps Gaming Companies Meet Rigorous Scaling and Performance Demands San Francisco, CA -- (January 30, 2012) - Joyent, the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, today released new metrics that highlight its continued dominance in the world of mobile and social gaming. Built for performance, reliability and real-time elastic scaling, Joyent is the only provider able to meet the demands of today’s modern gaming providers. New case studies from Digital Chocolate, M… Read More ›

New Data Solution Brings Advantages of Joyent Cloud to Big Data San Francisco -- January 23, 2013 - Joyent, the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, today announced a new Apache Hadoop-based solution, built using the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), that allows companies to run enterprise-class Hadoop on the high-performance Joyent Cloud. Signifying Joyent’s first entry into the big data landscape, this new Hadoop-based solution meets industry demand to reduce costs and dramatically d… Read More ›

Major Software Release Brings Powerful Platform to the Enterprise SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 7, 2012) - Joyent, the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, today announced the launch of Joyent7, the first fabric-based cloud infrastructure platform to support the increasing demands of large enterprises and cloud services providers alike. Joyent7 is the fastest, most resilient and scalable cloud infrastructure platform -- delivering the performance required to run solutions for… Read More ›

Unique partnership offers developers the next generation of tools to build high performance, flexible and scalable applications San Francisco - (October 16, 2012) - Joyent, the high-performance cloud company, and 10gen (the MongoDB company) today announced product/technology enhancements to increase performance, flexibility and scalability. The two companies also joined together with leading technology experts MongoLab, Nodejitsu and Clock to create NodeStack Online -- a unique web conference… Read More ›

Joyent Cloud Architecture Boosts CPU Capacity Up to 400 Percent While Improving Gamer Experience and Cutting Infrastructure Costs in Half. San Francisco – September 13, 2012 – Joyent, the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, today announced a partnership with Digital Chocolate, a leading provider of social games across growing platforms, to dramatically improve overall gameplay while cutting infrastructure costs in half. By moving its social and mobile games to the Joyent Cloud, Dig… Read More ›

Enables carriers to expose their networks to developers and build Mobile OTT Services to drive return on cloud investments and engage developers. 11 September, 2012 — NEW DELHI — Voxeo Labs, a San Francisco-based technology company leading the industry in real-time carrier APIs, today announced that it has joined the Global Cloud Network (GCN); an alliance of mobile carriers who run their cloud on Joyent’s SmartDataCenter fabric. In joining the GCN, Voxeo Labs is helping to deliver the world’s first M… Read More ›

Joyent Cloud Manages Massive Usage Surges and Helps Company Rapidly Scale San Francisco, CA – September 6, 2012 – Joyent, the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, today announced that Joyent Cloud has been selected by online video clip and sharing service ReelSurfer as its IT platform. ReelSurfer chose Joyent over Amazon Web Services (AWS) for its ability to scale instantly and 99.9999% uptime to meet the demands of a new and rapidly-growing customer base. ReelSurfer’s free online video… Read More ›

Enables instant database scalability, optimization and real-time visibility for MySQL deployments across Joyent’s Global Cloud Network Mumbai, India – AUGUST 28, 2012 – ScaleArc, the pioneer of database infrastructure software that simplifies the way database environments are deployed and managed, today announced it has joined the Global Cloud Network (GCN), an alliance of mobile carriers who run their mobile clouds and IaaS on Joyent’s data center fabric. In joining GCN, ScaleArc will offer its Sca… Read More ›

Joyent Cloud Infrastructure Enables Sleepy Giant the Flexibility Needed to Cope with the Volatile Nature of Online Games While Delivering a Superior User Experience San Francisco – August 14, 2012– Joyent, the high-performance cloud infrastructure performance company, today announced that Sleepy Giant, the leading games-as-a-service provider for game developers and publishers on all digital platforms, has chosen Joyent Cloud as its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider. As a result of orga… Read More ›

San Francisco – July 31, 2012– Joyent, the high-performance cloud infrastructure performance company, today announced that ModCloth, an online retailer specializing in vintage-inspired women’s fashion and décor, has chosen Joyent Cloud to ensure ModCloth customers benefit from a consistently great online shopping experience. “Our customers have learned to expect an instant shopping experience that’s fun, engaging and constantly updated with new merchandise every time they visit our site,” said Blake Irvin,… Read More ›

Joyent investor and customer Telefónica, the giant Spanish telecom provider in Europe, Latin America and the U.S. and the world’s fifth largest mobile carrier, today announced the launch of a new public cloud in Spain based on Joyent technology. This is a translation of the Spanish language press release. As it indicates, there’s more cloud news to come from Telefónica. Read on: TELEFONICA LAUNCHES INSTANT SERVERS, CLOUD SERVICES FOR INTERNET APPLICATION HOSTING, IN SPAIN Service to be provided by ac… Read More ›

Amsterdam-based service offers Joyent Cloud innovation that includes superior real-time performance and unmatched analytics and reliability. Amsterdam and San Francisco – April 19, 2012 — Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, today unveiled Joyent Cloud Europe, an extension of the US-based Joyent Cloud that will provide high-performance real-time Infrastructure-as-a-Service in Europe, located in Amsterdam. This launch is driven by demand from customers in North Ame… Read More ›

Cloudant and Joyent partnership provides scalable platform for big data application developers San Francisco and Boston – April 11, 2012 – Joyent Cloud, the public cloud designed for real-time, high-performance applications, and Cloudant, provider of a scalable Data Layer as a Service for data-driven web and mobile applications, today announced a partnership to provide developers with the ability to store, analyze and distribute application data across a global network of secure, hig… Read More ›

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and NEW YORK, NY--Joyent Cloud, the public cloud designed for real-time, high-performance applications, and Nodejitsu, provider of cloud management software and enterprise development tools for Node.js, today announced a partnership to deliver best-of-breed infrastructure and platform services and software to the growing ranks of enterprise and public cloud users developing and deploying applications for Node.js. Node.js is the fast-growing, high-performance application… Read More ›

Customers’ Real-Time Computing Needs Demand the Real-Time Capabilities of Joyent’s Cloud Infrastructure SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Mar 1, 2012—Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, today announced its plans to extend its real-time public cloud offering to Asia in the second quarter of 2012, starting with a public cloud in Tokyo and following with a Singapore-based operation catering to the greater Southeast Asia region. The plan is in response to existing customers who plan to expa… Read More ›

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and GENEVA and FERRARA, ITALY—-January 24, 2012—-Joyent, the global provider of cloud computing software and services, and ICOS, leading Italian distributor of IT enterprise infrastructure solutions, today announced a strategic agreement to provide SmartDataCenter software to local channel partners and service providers. SmartDataCenter is a cloud infrastructure software platform developed by Joyent and marketed to customers worldwide. By partnering with ICOS, Italian VARs wil… Read More ›

Capital infusion supports Joyent’s provision of global cloud services to enterprises and service providers San Francisco—January 23, 2012—Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, today announced it has completed an $85 million funding round, with European group Weather Investment II providing the majority of the round. Weather II was advised by Accelero Capital, an investment and management group. Both Weather II and Accelero focus on telecommunication and related media… Read More ›

NodeFly integrates analytics data via Joyent Cloud Analytics API to help companies monitor and optimize performance of Node.js apps in real-time San Francisco and Vancouver — January 19, 2011 — Joyent Cloud, the highest performance public cloud, and NodeFly, an innovative provider of cloud application and infrastructure monitoring services, today announced a partnership to offer Node.js analytics services to Joyent Cloud customers. NodeFly is the first monitoring services company to integrate Nod… Read More ›

San Francisco, January 11, 2012 – Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, today announced that Node.js, an open source platform for easily building fast, scalable real time applications, has been chosen by InfoWorld for the Technology of the Year Award. Joyent is the corporate sponsor and key driver of Node.js and offers an integrated suite of products and services utilizing this award winning technology. The platform is ideally suited to run on Joyent SmartOS, the J… Read More ›

August 15, 2011 — This morning, LinkedIn launched its gorgeously overhauled mobile app. We’ve already told you all about the new features, but for developers, the most exciting part is what’s going on under the hood. The app is two to 10 times faster on the client side than its predecessor, and on the server side, it’s using a fraction of the resources, thanks to a switch from Ruby on Rails to Node.js, a server-side JavaScript development framework that’s barely a year old but already rapidly gaining t… Read More ›